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What is your Monday morning quarterbacking for Occupy? [ 3:53 | 3.62 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (983)

The Question From Hell is back! This month’s Question From Hell for our listening audience is ‘what is your Monday morning quarterbacking for the #Occupy movement?‘ In American football, a ‘Monday Morning Quarterback’ is a spectator who criticizes or passes judgment on the preceding weekend’s games. This analysis also often includes what the fan believes [...]

September 24, 2011 - Hour Four - Chris Woods [ 1:02:38 | 57.35 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (847)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the last hour of the show we talked live from London, Chris Woods is an award-winning London-based investigative journalist and documentary film maker. Chris writes for The Bureau of Investigative reporting. He previously [...]

September 24, 2011 - Hour Three - Sahr Muhammedally [ 47:09 | 43.17 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (782)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the third hour, live from London, Sahr Muhammedally is a consultant in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch and co-authored the report, “Just Don’t Call it a Militia: Impunity, Militias, and the Afghan [...]

September 24, 2011 - Hour Two - Erica Gaston [ 1:10:24 | 64.45 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (878)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the second hour live in-studio, Spencer ’Thunderball’ Thayer and Chuck talked about Positive Loitering and its racist implications in Chicago. Later we attempted to talk to Erica Gaston, a program officer for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Policy Initiative of [...]

September 24, 2011 - Hour One - Stephen Walt [ 54:10 | 49.58 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (950)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after our over-the-air broadcast here. In the first hour, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed Stephen Walt is a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy [...]

A Message From This Is Hell! [ 5:00 | 4.58 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (901)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011. However this isn’t it. We’re trying something different, we are finally listening to you the listening audience and we’ll be breaking up the show into one segment per guest! Though this will take us sometime so don’t expect to see the podcast [...]

From May 21: Anatol Lieven [ 36:32 | 33.44 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (386)

From June 4: Deepak Tripathi [ 55:41 | 50.98 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (169)

From June 11: Seymour Hersh [ 34:46 | 31.82 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (184)

From June 18: Johann Hari [ 53:24 | 48.89 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (169)

From June 25: Helen Epstien [ 38:23 | 35.14 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (171)

From July 2: John Vidal [ 38:51 | 35.57 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (174)

Today, Saturday, July 23, This is Hell! airs a year in review four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central time) over the air on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz has to take off due to the recent death of his mother. From [...]

Vincent Bugliosi v. Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer [ 29:10 | 27.34 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (282)

Rough transcrip: So as I write this some moron is singing the national anthem at the Uptown Rib Fest just a few blocks away and the smell of dead pig marinated in sugar is wafting into my room. So I apologize if I am a little more harsh  on Mr. Bugliosi than I probably should be, but [...]

You watch too many movies, police don't need a warrant. [ 24:02 | 22.44 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (167)

Rough transcrip: One of my favorite parts of being a Copwatcher and a member of the National Lawyers Guild is a class I get to teach called “Know Your Rights.”* It’s great. I get to meet lots of people, learn from their experiences and generally get to blow their freakin minds… Seriously. You would be [...]

Best of Noam Chomsky with Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer [ 3:45:03 | 206.04 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (260)

This is Hell! producer Spencer “Thunderball” Thayer host ‘The This is Hell! Noam Chomsky Interviews’. Spencer played interviews conducted by your bitter blind broke gap toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz has conducted with Noam dating back to 2001. We started with our first Chomsky interview back on September 1, 2001, which runs over fifty minutes. [...]

Podcast for April 2, 2011 [ 2:09:50 | 118.86 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (78)

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: economist Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Ha-Joon’s past books include, “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free trade and the Secret History of Capitalism” (Bloomsbury Press) and the 2003 Myraid Prize-winning “Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy [...]

Cameras Are The New Gunsa [ 18:50 | 17.52 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (125)

Rough transcrip: So, I have a confession to make. Not the kind you tell a Priest in a confessional, but the one you tell your lawyer when you’re in an holding cell.My lawyer advises me that it’s not a good idea to confess to a crime- on an international radio show, but I’m not one [...]